Quotes by Work As a general rule, when something gets elevated to apple-pie status in the hierarchy of American values, you have to suspect that its actual monetary value is skidding toward zero. Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent. Same thing with work: would we be so reverent about the 'work ethic' if it wasn't for the fact that the average working stiff's hourly pay is shrinking, year by year. Barbara Ehrenreich motherhood zero work The best work is a fusion of love and praise. Barbara Grizzuti Harrison fusion praise work If you had to work in the environment of Washington, D.C., as I do, and watch those men who are so imprisoned and so confined by their eighteenth-century thought patterns, you would know that if anybody is going to be liberated, it's men who must be liberated in this country. Barbara Jordan work men country A job is not a career. I think I started out with a job. It turned into a career and changed my life. Barbara Walters work jobs thinking A woman can do anything. She can be traditionally feminine and that's all right; she can work, she can stay at home; she can be aggressive; she can be passive; she can be any way she wants with a man. But whenever there are the kinds of choices there are today, unless you have some solid base, life can be frightening. Barbara Walters work home life Women do two thirds of the world's work. Yet they earn only one tenth of the world's income and own less than one percent of the world's property. They are among the poorest of the world's poor. Barber Conable poverty work two And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter. Beatrice Wood usual work art First of all, I'd like to say here the fact that I'm not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard. Beatrice Wood work facts firsts I think everybody should just turn off their TV machines and make up their own songs about whatever comes to mind-their couch, their friends their loaves of bread. Everybody's got their own songs. There should be so many songs out there that it all turns into one big sound and we can put the whole thing into a pickup truck and let it roll off the edge of the Grand Canyon. Beck work song thinking Little things affect little minds. Benjamin Disraeli sarcastic teaching work He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong. Benjamin Disraeli sarcastic ignorance work We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid. Benjamin Franklin stupid education work I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind, if he first forms a good plan, and, cutting off all amusements or other employments that would divert his attention, make the execution of that same plan his sole study and business. Benjamin Franklin cutting work philosophy Plough deep while sluggards sleep. Benjamin Franklin work success sleep A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one. Benjamin Franklin failure education work It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man. Benjamin Franklin work happy men Diligence is the mother of good luck, and God gives all things to industry. Work while it is called today, for you know not how much you may be hindered by tomorrow. One today is worth two tomorrows; never leave that till tomorrow which you can do to-day. Benjamin Franklin procrastination work time When men are employed they are best contented. Benjamin Franklin economics work men I early found that when I worked for myself alone, myself alone worked for me; but when I worked for others also, others worked also for me. Benjamin Franklin found work Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never. Benjamin Franklin lazy laziness work «678910111213141516»